about

Brief academic bio

I am a postdoctoral researcher in Chris Summerfield’s Human Information Processing Lab at the University of Oxford, where I was also a Junior Research Fellow at Somerville College and an NSERC postdoctoral fellow from 2023 to 2025. In December 2026, I will join the School of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Glasgow as a Lecturer. I did my PhD in cognitive science and neuropsychology at the University of Montreal, supervised by Marc Schönwiesner and Yoshua Bengio at BRAMS and Mila. During my PhD, I was a visiting researcher at Maastricht University and a Mitacs fellow at Nuance Communications. I hold an MA in Digital Musics from Dartmouth College and a BA in psychology, computer science, and music technology from McGill University.

Where I’m heading

Cognitive science has traditionally studied individuals in isolation. But we rarely do anything truly alone. Humanity’s greatest achievements come from our capacity to learn from and with each other and to organize ourselves around shared goals, and many of the defining crises of our time reflect our failure to do so.

At Glasgow, I will continue to study the computational principles of human learning while centring the fact that all human learning is socially embedded. When people learn together, a group can become wiser than any of its members, or it can amplify its members’ errors and biases. What separates the wisdom of crowds from the madness of mobs? When does discussing, explaining, and teaching help us learn more than learning alone? Which patterns of communication help a community learn, and which lead it astray? And how might tools that help each individual, such as generative AI, harm the community as a whole, for example by homogenizing the group? You can read more about these questions on my research page.

These questions matter well beyond the lab. Many of the problems we now face, such as climate change, can only be solved by large groups acting together. Yet in a hyperconnected, globalized world, our actions have far-reaching effects that are difficult to anticipate, and we did not evolve to reason or coordinate at that scale. As Nick Chater and George Loewenstein write in It’s On You, paraphrasing Mancur Olson, “the concentrated interests of the few are so powerful because they can most easily be aligned and coordinated to carry through a coherent plan of action. But coordinated action by the many, once achieved, is unstoppable.” I want to do research that supports the collective intelligence and coordinated action of the many, aided by new technologies where they help and mitigating their harms where they don’t.